how much of what we believe about endpoint actually comes from SURMOUNT threads
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: how much of what we believe about endpoint actually comes from SURMOUNT threads. Compared myself to a trial mean for about six months before realising the trial arm had dietitian contact every fortnight. The discontinuation numbers were the most…
Read a press release and the publication three months apart. The hedging in the second one was substantial.
phase 2 finds a dose, phase 3 measures the effect
That is the 68-week readout, not the 72-week one. Different trial, different duration.
a mean is not a promise
Started keeping the trial identifiers straight in a note file because I kept mixing up two programmes in the same sentence.
check who the comparator was before you compare anything
Quoted a figure here confidently, got asked whether it was ITT, went and checked, and it was not. Learned something.